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Motorcyclists who participated in the fourth annual Emily’s Parade on Sunday weren’t the only ones who enjoyed the ride from South Jeffco to Bailey — people lined U.S. 285 and cheered the riders on their way to Platte Canyon High School.

Nearly 2,000 motorcycles made the 45-mile trip to remember Emily Keyes, who was killed by a gunman at Platte Canyon High School on Sept. 27, 2006. The parade raises money for the I Love U Guys Foundation, a nonprofit headed by Emily’s father, John-Michael Keyes.

Damage to Jeffco’s infrastructure will cost the county $531,000 in coming months to cover emergency repairs. Repairs are needed, county officials said last week, in the Taj Mahal’s parking garages and in a section of the Laramie Building, which has shifted due to clay deposits below the foundation.

The county will transfer funds from a planned software acquisition and a concrete-improvement project at the Taj in cover the repair costs.

The former Table Mountain Animal Center site could soon be set ablaze or used for target practice in the months before it would be demolished. Jefferson County officials said they might invite local emergency-service agencies to use the vacant building for firefighting training and tactical police exercises.

In August, the shelter relocated to its new incarnation, Foothills Animal Shelter.

It’s time to talk openly about suicide, and to get public officials to put suicide prevention on their radar so they help find the funding that will save lives, a group of suicide awareness advocates stressed at a town hall meeting recently.

“This is a topic that makes people uncomfortable,” said Jarrod Hindman, program director at the Colorado Office of Suicide Prevention. However, keeping the topic of suicide in the shadows only allows the stigma to continue, he said.

U.S. Senate hopeful and Highlands Ranch resident Charley Miller is mounting an improbable challenge to the reigning two-party system, and despite a lack of name recognition, he refuses to accept the long odds his campaign faces.

Miller, an unaffiliated candidate whose catch-phrase is “Stop the insanity,” wants to make local voters aware of options outside the Republican and Democratic parties, both of which he draws from in his hybrid political views.

Jeffco officials last week praised several long-awaited rulings in the First Amendment lawsuit brought against the county by former radio host Mike Zinna, including a Sept. 24 decision upholding the county’s dismissal from the case.

U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch awarded Zinna $8,000 in attorney fees and about $9,000 in court costs, a paltry sum compared to the half million dollars Zinna said he has spent on the suit.

Chatfield High seniors Dean Wright and Nik Treece have an appreciation for how precious life can be — both watched their moms live through the shock of a cancer diagnosis and the grueling treatments that followed.

On Sunday morning, Treece, Wright and Wright’s mother, Colleen — along with the boys’ friends and teammates from Chatfield — were among 60,000 participants in the 18th annual Komen Denver Race for the Cure.